The Chamavi were a Germanic tribe of Late Antiquity and the European Dark Age. They first appear under that name in the 1st century AD Germania of Tacitus as a Germanic tribe that, for most of their history, existed along the North bank of the Lower Rhine in the region today called Hamaland after them, which's in the Gelderland province of the Netherlands. Tacitus (op. cit. 34) locates them to the west of the Frisians. Origins Tacitus says (35) that the Chamavi had moved into the lands of the Br… (More on Chamavi)